Wesp5 wrote on Aug 2, 2017, 10:21:And another walking simulator where you only observe and to not act or interact with NPCs. For a good story I rather read a book or watch a movie if there is little I can actually do in the game world anyway...

It's by the same people as Gone Home, so expect the usual suspects in the games media (their friends, sexual partners, and allies) to lose their minds praising the "game."

Amusingly enough, the same people who adamantly declare that we should be open to all kinds of people, regardless of their physical, ethnic, gender characteristics, that diversity is our strength, etc., operate as a narrow little clique. If someone outside the clique published a walking simulator of comparable quality (or even something with actual game mechanics... see "House Party

Aaaaannnd that's where you lost me.

I almost spontaniously turned into a feminazi when I saw reviews of that game.

Maybe it's the goddamn asperger talking, but bad buys can really eat away at me. PUBG was a very bad buy for me. I hate practically every aspect of the game. This is literally the first time hype fucked me so hard. Still baffled by how well this garbage is received.

Cutter wrote on Jul 28, 2017, 20:00:Poor Tolkein must be spinning in his grave right about now, 'What in god's name are they doing to my work?!'

He was spinning in his grave decades ago...this is small fries.

ROFLOL are you seriously implying that The Lord of the Rings trilogy wasn't worthy of its name? If there's one writer who doesn't have to feel embarrassed -- dead or not -- it's Tolkien.

Even if you grant that that adaptation was far better than anyone could have imagined, the travesty of the Hobbit almost erases that accomplishment. Despite nailing a few scenes/characters and some awesome cinematography and set design, the Hobbit Trilogy was an abomination. They even knew from the first trilogy that they were at their best when they played close to the OG texts, but somehow they forgot or misjudged the effort required to do that for Bilbos lark.

Alright, with that I agree. The Hobbit was too scary for little kids and too childish for anyone above fucking 12. If The Hobbit had that same ominous vibe as LOTR, it could've been as much a blast as LOTR.

HoSpanky wrote on Jul 29, 2017, 00:15:Slim, it may be cheap because their previous games just didn't move many copies at full price. I'm a little unnerved by it as well, part of why I'm waiting on reviews.

It's funny, we all wait for games to go on sale, and this one may be just shooting for mid-life pricing out the gate and we think "what's wrong with it?".

There's a video somewhere where the devs are actually explaining the pricing. I think it has to do with them being their own publisher but I'm not sure I remember it correctly.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jul 28, 2017, 01:05:The real problem of "for honor" is and remains the fact that I could be playing Mount and Blade instead.... and command armies, do quests, become king.

For Honor is like 10% of Mount and Blade, very polished, very smooth combat, but also very formulaic and stone-beats-paper style combat.. I didn't like it at all. The combat is basically a fancy quicktime event.

There's one game I just cannot stop to hate, and it's For Honor. What an immense pile of fucking shite, this is! And like a 12 year old idiot, it pisses me off that other people somehow seem to like it XD

I don't share the negativity. JC3 is certainly different from JC2 but I remember a lot of unique villages, all with their own vibe if you gave it your attention. It even had some hidden, crazy quantum tunnel that teleported you to another place on the island xD

It was, however, more of the same. It was just as good and in many ways way better than JC2 but it had nothing new. Many people's memory misjudges that as a game being worse than its prequel. If you order a second main course at a restaurant, the food could be better than the first but you'll enjoy it much less. You're full. I wasn't. And I feasted.

Redmask wrote on Jul 16, 2017, 17:09:Mass Effect Chat in the mofuckin Mass Effect thread: is the DLC to this actually cancelled? I recall a rumor saying it was. I was curious to see if Bioware Montreal could redeem themselves with the DLC but its looking increasingly like they've been put on patch support and that no DLC will come. Didn't they sell a Season Pass with this? I wonder if people will get refunds.

Fucking base game is boring ass shit and the multiplayer is repetitive/bad but there is potential if nothing else.

I hope Anthem is good otherwise EA is going to Maxis the shit out of Bioware.

If you don't hear anything about DLC when the CES 2017 happens then you can assume ME:A is dead to EA, bit too early to really say though. But as others have said, they gonna push their Anthem game, which is fine I guess if it has SP, but I won't be playing an OPEN WORLD coop game online ever. The gameplay design for SOLO play is always shit in such games -.-

That's the same case I made in the Anthem reveal thread. Took an hour of my life having to explain that assertion to some people.

PUBG's succes is inexplicable to me, really. Played it with a friend yesterday. Ended 3rd and 4th and had some good moment getting there. In the end we just got riddled with bullets from fuck knows where, adding a whole new depressing memory to the term "anti-climactic". My friend snorted as he saw that we both only got about 300 points. Another 2000 to go for what, another blue shirt?

The game just isn't that good by any standards I've learned to judge games on. Yes, all. Bad UI, unimpressive graphics, forgettable gameplay, and an utter sense of "wtf am I doing this for again?" after every match.

Not sure if that's what it needs, though those with 10 days playtime might. I still have fun landing on the same few buildings/complexes that I've learned how to loot and shoot in. Most shooters get away with a few good maps.

The one thing that is not fun is the combat in buildings that require more abuse of the 3rd person camera than anything else. Cannot wait for forced first person view.

Also some people are really good or use aimbots as half my deaths are headshots, I can barely line up a decent center mass shot (I might have less than half a dozen headhshots ever). Maybe CSGO people are making the jump and the skillz/cheating translate? I still love the game but I have to compensate for my uselessness by being extra sneaky and picky with engagements like when I was on a 28.8 as a teenager.

Same. If I don't have the absolute drop on people, I sure as hell lose the fight somehow. Or... I have the drop on someone, open fire and then get headshotted from a mile away by some other dude.

It's frustrating because this is a game where playing it careful and then dying 20 minutes in, feels like an ABSOLUTE waste of time.

Well I bought the game due to all the extreme positivity about the game.

I don't get the hype.

1. The map gets boring quickly;2. The gameplay is nothing new and I've seen it before in DayZ;3. The gameplay isn't even anything to write home about for. What am I missing here?

It's the same every time: you drop out of the sky and the first 5 minutes are boring AF as you search for loot. You play it terribly save and make it 10 minutes in, when a camper shoots a slug in your asshole as you open a random door in a random house.

Is there any progression to this other than cosmetics, also?

I'm sorry for sounding like a bitch but the excitement is beyond me. I literally just don't understand it. xP